John Sheppard

I'm sorry? Assuming i know best? Logic can't be bent whichever way you like Answer me this PLEASE What happenes to the NEW players that join after 1 month or later? Why would they be any different and why it's fair for those players to see everyone else max rank in big ships killing them all the time? What's the difference between those players and the ones just after the release? Can one of you big supporters answer this question to me? Use your Logic

XP wipe you say to level they playing field for the new players? But what about the new players that will come 1 ,2 , 5 ,10 weeks after release? Should we level the playing field for them too? Why should we do it for the players that will come the first week and not for the thousands (hopefully) others to follow later? This is something i just can't understand and everyone seems to miss

We were promissed xp to be safe.. now it turns out to be a lie We are now being promised that the DLCs are safe .. who knows.. maybe they're aren't really and will be turned in something else? Hmm? How are we supposed to believe anything now?

No offence but something's telling me you haven't played much before the big wipe let me explain why we seem so damn angry . It's coz some of us had to do the same thing twice or even 3 times and it gets really annoying Basicly before the big wipe it went like this : Old plaers : Fu.k this i'm not playing what's the point to grind and then be reset basicly wasting my time? I'll come back on release when i know that what i do from that point onwards won't be wasted (read what liam said above "When can i next play where my progress will actually count and remain indefinitely?" ) Admin : Noooo come back this is the last wipe i promsie Old players : really? Admin: Suuuree there will be simple economy wipes only but XP is guaranteed to be safe Old Players : ok then let's give it a go Also .. what change are you talking about it? there's not talk of any change just reset the clock from the start .. same all over again

In which case a lot of the old players are determined to take this game down with them sad but true and it will happen. The people who said those things don't take what they say lightly Maybe a little extreme but true for some of them this has become their life . Some of us spent more time in this game than real life. Pls don't start preaching from your moral high ground (angus and PG and the rest fo you) that this is wrong we don't care to hear your hypocritcal idiologies. We all know that if you put a lot of effort into something finish building it look at it and see how nice you made it , then someone comes smashes it to bits and laughs at you , telling you to build it again from beginning (for the 2nd time) , that person would be in a VERY VERY bad trouble .

Oh well.. like it or not this is NOT the military and people have Free Will and they WILL fight for what they love .. If you think they'll just bend over you are looking at the wrong race mate .. or universe?

FIY one of those people i know is over 50 .. about the rest i can't vouch but i would guess in 25-50 range from previous conversations Maybe you are living in a fairy tale world where there is no violence and people are always calm and obedient?

Sure everyone likes to play the game and enjoy it but what happenes when you really enjoy it and someone comes and smashes it to pieces with a sledgehammer? some people have become very attached to this game .. made sacrifices for it.. right or wrong and now someone will destoy it .. how do you think they will react? Listen i'm not the bad guy here .. would you rather prefer i didn't say anything and it would happen anyways? coz like i said people ARE talking about this and i don't want to point fingers I'm just letting everyone know that it will come to this Like i said it's basic human nature if you destroy someone's loved object he will come after you .. we don't live in fairy tales

Well.. call it as you wish this is what lots of people are talking about right now.. Admin said he will wipe our XP is this a threat? no he's just saying what's gonna hapen and i just said what people are talking about .. they are also not threatning.. if they were they would come on the forum and say "If you do this we will do that" no .. they're also stating what they are going to do .. if someone destroyes what they enjoy they will make sure they destroy it completely for the person who did this to them It seems fair and if you have basic understanding of human nature you should expect something like this

@admin We are disscussing this on TS and Discord now You should know that a lot of the old players are pissed off more than you can possibly imagine and if it comes to it they-we are even prepared to retaliate on purpose I mean farm the new players extensively to force them to quit and give negative reviews .. just letting you know how bad this can turn out.. i don't think it would be in the best interest of the game EDIT: just to make sure ... this is not my suggestion

Hi Full asset wipe i can accept But full XP wipe? WHY? especially after it was promised to be safe I think there is a flawed logic there just think about it @admin .. it's not a 1 time issue You think that new players shouldn't have to face the old veterans that have everything when they just start playing .. though it looks like a solution to set everyone at the same level it still doesn't solve the issue because in few months or 1 year it will be THE SAME .. there will be lots of people who will buy this game in 1 year or more and i think it will actually be more people than the 1st year just like with many other games . They will have the same problem .. they will be dumped into the middle of a battlefield where everyone else is in 1st rates and they are in cutters what should we do? Wipe the game again? every few months? So i don't really see the point Besides we all had the issue above yet we are still here finally leveled up . We didn't think that it's unfair for someone else to be Rear Admiral when we started .. ON THE CONTRARY ! it gave us (or atleast me) motivation coz i was like : "Damn i want to be like that guy one day and sail a Victory . I better put more effort into it" Also there will be people who will become Rear Admirals or whatever the highest rank is in the first few days and others will need a month and others even more .. is it unfair for those people? should we all be kept at a slow pace to fllow the new ones? Edit : If leveling up is so easy that as you say players can level up in few days or a week .. do you then think that all the future players will buy this game in this first week? or will actually most of them buy it later when they find out about it? so same problem like i said above .. they will still see max rank people sailing around them but that's not a bad thing

if you still have issues after this i would highly recommend to split your disk , create a separate 50GB partition and install windows 7 there i'm confident you should be able to run it atleast as good if not better than my shitty GPU currently is.. Yours is supposed to be atleast 40-50% better than mine according to benchmarks

Don't worry about it i do it to all computers i service . Even desktops require this. Do hold your breath however coz as soon as you start a huge cloud of highly radioactive dust will come of it and you must not inhale it .. ok just kidding ofc about the radioactive part but you'll be surprise how much dust can come out

seemed like quad shot to me from the damage it did to my double white merc .. i mean snow has the same amount of guns as the merc .. ok one more but it did 4x the damage i did to it does a bermuda cedar/crew space Tsnow have 4x the HP and/or thicnkess as the the double white+basic hull merc? doubt it ... it didn't had carronades i could clearly see guns and last time i checked the AI only uses mediums

Yeah i know all this but i say again .. in the case of the AI Tsnow i shot double as well and done nothing even tho all 10 shots penned in it's right side armor sooo .. 1. I was point blank almost touching the Tsnow 2. I did not do any damage to its bow/stern 3. Tsnow was Cedar and i was double white oak In the case of the spanish ocean again i was keeping myself perfectly lined up and mine ship was exactly alongside and i mean perfectly lined up to the point that if something was in front of us both our bows would be either touching it or not .. ofc you can say that he was fir/fir .. that doesn't make sense in a port battle but let's go with it .. ok fair enough that explains how i did damage to him but WHY THE HECK didn't he do ANY damage to me for the 5 minutes that my HP seemed to be "locked" .. i have been in plenty of PBs and fought/used live/white oceans enough to know exactly how much damage to expect and i'm telling you i've taken far more damage in one broadside from 300m than what i took from those guys firing at me from 2m repeatedly.. sooo.. any other explanations?

It was a PB , don't think anyone would "experiment" with 6pd armament on an ocean during PB and after this "skirmish" or "melee" however you wanna call it he was doing normal damage to me I would love to make a video but sadly i'm barely able to run the game as it is . Like i said this is not the first time

yeah the carros maybe went over but his other 3 decks should had done damage to me .. a lot of damage from this range .. Plus i was doing A LOT of damage to him with every broadside he was losing 20% armor which is normal it was me who wasn't taking any damage that's why it's strange Second screenshot they attempted to save the guy by pushing me off but it's supposed to show that after this time i still have pretty much same HP like 2 minutes before even tho he had time to fire twice .. Also pls do take in account that already few minutes had passed before i even took the 1st screenshot so you can see that i was undamaged .. and even this damage that i had in the 1st one was damage that i suffered long before this situation

Hi Since months ago i've noticed that there is a certain inconsistency in the damage i deal and receive between instances but could not prove it.. other people have also noticed it but think it's either their imagination or other factors What do i mean? Well sometimes you fire a broadside point blank , get credited 30 hits on top and deal 20% damage .. in next broadside you get again 30 hits and deal less damage The Ai are especially prone to this it seems as they can be sitting next to you shooting you for minutes and you hardly take any damage then they take out half your armor in one broadside (seems to be connected with their single shot mode but not sure) Ok .. examples .. besides plenty of strange instances where there should had been more damage done to me or less the best example i have is this : I was sailing wo/wo basic hullR Mercury with 6pd mediums in patrol zone to finish my last few points for the next reward.. so i attacked a trader snow (AI) .. done the usual chain then close in with double shot at point blank range .. only a plank could fit between my hull and the Tsnow's .. so i shot full broadside in locked random and all 10 shots penned (got 10 hull popup message on top whatever it's called) and i did only 20% damage to the Tsnow or less .. i was quite surprised thought maybe it's a white oak snow or something but then it fires at me and puts me into reload shock .. it's true i don't use Mercury much but that's a bit excessive damage.. so i became a bit more careful and in the end decided to board it and see what the heck it was made of .. turns out it was Bermuda crew space .. other ppl i've told this to shook their heads in disbelief Another instance is in Bensalem defensive port battle i was in my PB Ocean with nearly max thickness and hp ok fair enough it's a tanky ship but i was in the middle of 3 Spanish Oceans pretty much stopped rubbing our hulls against eachother .. for 5 minutes i was there shooting at them and they shooting at me .. i took ABSOLUTELY NO DAMAGE (check screenshots) so it was quite strange and unless they were shooting chain (which wouldn't had lasted that long) or grape at my hull can't be explained or at least doesn't make sense to me and those were no newbies all of them were quite experienced players so there must be something going in with the damage like i said. In the end after 5 mins it got "unstuck" and i started taking the normal damage again PS .. as the screenshots are quite messy from all the masts and sails pls pay attention on the radar/map too see the situation

BTW if you wanna check what GPU is currently in use hold the windows icon on your keyboard then press R to bring up the run prompt and type in dxdiag then press Enter in the display tab you'll see the active GPU

Hi I have a much more shitty system (old intel I3 with 8GB of DDR3 and GT730) yet i'm able to run the game at 21 FPS currently The thing to do is make sure your laptop runs the game on the Nvidia GPU and not the intel one (which is embedded in the CPU) .. The way to do this is to right click on your desktop and go into Nvidia control panel (or find it in the start menu if you press the windows icon and then type nvidia) if you go in "Manage 3d settings" you'll see option to select graphics card (mine doesn't coz it's a PC and i've disabled intel in my Bios Edit : i see others have already attached the screenshot how to set the game to run to Nvidia GPU In the game itself put it on low then increase the water to medium (i've found that it has almost no effect on the FPS) What seems to kill the FPS is the Terrain , Trees AA and geometry If all else fails reduce the resolution from 1920x1080 to 1600x900 (this is what i've done coz otherwise i get 13-16FPS If you've owned the laptop for over a year with moderate use and take it to places where it can suck a lot of dust like your bed then you need to clean it with compressed air (especially if you feel it gets hotter than when you first bought it or the fan works too loud ) .. if you don't own an air compressor then go to your nearest gas station take the hose you usually inflate your tires with and thoroughly blow all the holes of the laptop starting from the underside not the Fan side (Don't worry about it it may seem harsh but i've done it to over 100 laptops i've repaired and they all work better and cooler after ) Don't use any of the canned air stuff it's bad

Yes i ended up with 0 ships I can't be 100% sure about the location of all my 20 ships but i only touched 3 outposts and i think i had some rapid response ships scattered around in other ops In any case just like the post by rufus said there is definetly a bug involved so just as a warning to everybody : WARNING : If you BUY a ship in a port that you DON'T have an outpost , DO NOT BUILD AN OUTPOST there . Make sure you SELECT the ship BEFORE building an outpost , otherwise you will LOSE THE SHIP THAT YOU JUST BOUGHT pls tell this to other players so they don't buy some gold ship and suddenly deside they need an outpost there only to lose the expensive ship

Ok .. new test done You come in a port you DON"T have an outpost at, sell your crappy trader brig you just captrued, deside to check the docks for a new ship to buy and see this really really nice purple surprise for only 700k and decide to buy it .. now you decide you need an outpost at this port for whatever reason coz you want to TP somewhere else maybe urgently so you build the outpost without selecting the ship first BOOM you just lost your new ship just because you BUILT an outpost without selecting it.. WTF.. this doesn't make sense at all but this is what happens and i'm pretty sure it's a bug coz destruction of outpost was not involved in this only building

and yeah i can understand losing my stuff if i close the port remotely while i'm miles away from it but when i'm sitting at the harbor why would i let anyone take away my ships? i don't get let's suppose you sail to a port you don't have an outpost at .. you sell your ship and buy another .. when you buy a ship it's NOT selected so you build an outpost before selecting the ship .. would that make your ship vanish? it shouldn't and it's no different from destroying and rebuilding an outpost while you're in that port coz it's not the act of destroying the outpost that makes the ships vanish it's the act of BUILDING the outpost in a port you already have ships at that makes them vanish for some reason and that's what makes me think it's a bug also ppl do that kind of stuff by accident in a hurry you can close the wrong outpost specially when they have similar names and the bar separating them is not that big.. shouldn't lose your ships if you haven't left the port i think also .. in this situation it would make sense to lose the stuff in the warehouse coz you've no longer have a building to store them at but ships? ships are not stored in a personal area .. it's a public dock and maybe you pay a fee to keep your ship docked but it's not a building why would you lose stuff when you BUILD an outpost instead of deleting it?

no i don't expect to lose my stuff if i'm sitting at the port and don't leave it be it ships or resources and i'm pretty sure i did it post-wipe without losing anything a few times specially in the beginning with the lack of coal situation and then when they added coal in belize

yeah i know that but i mean without leaving the port.. he left port AFTER rebuilding the outpost so between destroying and rebuilding the outpost he did not leave port it's just a matter of being in the port which is say in the 8th outpost slot .. closing it and oppening it in the 2nd slot which is empty i don't think that should make you lose your ships since you never left that port